lunes, 8 de agosto de 2011

Locarno Film Festival pays tribute to Harrison Ford


Hollywood star and former carpenter Harrison Ford received a Lifetime Achievement Award at 64th Locarno Film Festival, on Saturday.

The actor premiered his latest movie “Cowboys & Aliens” (Universal Pictures & DreamWorks) accompanied by his director Jon Favreau and co-stars Daniel Craig and Olivia Wilde.

Ford holding his Golden Leopard told the crowd of 7,000: “I'm very grateful for this. It reminds me of my enormous luck in my career to work with so many talented directors, actors, crew, writers, producers. And I appreciate the fact that I still have the opportunity from time to time to make movies.”

For the occasion of the Vincente Minnelli Retrospective, the Festival is honoured to welcome the French actress Leslie Caron, one of the stars of “An American in Paris” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951) and “Gigi” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1958).


On Thursday the actress appeared on the Piazza Grande stage for the introduction to the Retrospective and next day at 14.00 at the Magnolia – Spazio RSI, participated in an open discussion about her autobiography with the public.

Other numerous international guests for this edition include: Kabir Bedi, Guy Bedos, Daniel Brühl, Claudia Cardinale, Ingrid Caven, Gérard Depardieu, Abel Ferrara, Bruno Ganz, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Claude Goretta, Aleksei Guskov, Hannah Herzsprung, Isabelle Huppert, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mike Medavoy, Kati Outinen, Pierre Richard, Anri Sala, Maribel Verdú, and many more.


The festival kicked off on Wednesday 3 on the Piazza Grande with the presentation of the official competition juries and the screening of J. J. Abrams latest movie “Super 8”, produced by Steven Spielberg.

This edition will conclude with the official awards ceremony on Saturday August 13.

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